Snowflake Challenge #11: A Favourite Trope

[rodo]

snowflake_challenge: Challenge #11:
In your own space, Talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Oh, which ones to choose…

Star Crossed Lovers: I love myself some juicy, juicy drama, so this trope is pretty much catnip for me. I don’t need a happy end – in fact, if everything goes wrong, that’s often even better. My problem with the trope is mostly twofold. 1) I often end up being more invested in the super special protagonist’s parents who had this type of love story and 2) people keep advertising something as fitting this trope when it really doesn’t apply/only applies to already dead and/or minor characters.

A Count of Monte Cristo type revenge story: I love long, elaborate revenge plans against people who definitely deserve it, complicated by the fact that it unfortunately also affects people who don’t suck, and the moral dilemmas that leads to for the main character. Bonus points if the main character ends up falling in love with one of the people he/she tries to harm in the course of their revenge.

Comments

[pronker]

These are gorgeously complex tropes - and I'll be forever grateful for your rec in last year's Snowflake, "Mr. Sunshine." My involved wish for era, characters and everything else proved completely granted. :)

[rodo]

I'm glad you liked it! I was a bit hesitant to recommend it at first because you asked for fic, but it was still fresh on my mind, since I'd just finished watching it a third time because of Yuletide!